The Most Genius Ways To Hide Ugly Stuff In Your Home

I am going through an anti cleaning mode. My floors and bathrooms, ewww. But I am not anti beautification. I am excited to feature Viralnova and these clever ideas for hiding all the ugly stuff in my house. Cords are my nemesis and there are some fun ways here on how to hide them from sight and I think a couple will work wonderfully for me. Neat-o.

How would you hide the above air conditioner? Here’s how they did it… wow!

Five Ways You Can Hide Eyesores In Your Home

Practical and functional things around your home don’t always look that great. There are plenty of eyesores in your home that you would want to hide. This guide will show you a number of different tips to help you hide eyesores in your home and keep them out of sight. By learning how to hide eyesores, you can make your home look much more beautiful while still being completely practical.

1. Hiding Cables with Curtains

The spaghetti of cables under your desk can be a horrible sight. The easiest way of hiding these cables is to use a curtain fixed to the back of the desk. This can be a dark color, or colored to suit your decor. The curtain conceals the cables, but allows you access when required. Fixing a curtain under your desk is very easy to do, simply screw a curtain wire into the legs on your desk and slide a curtain across.

2. Create a Charger Drawer

Everyone has dozens of different devices which need to charged every night. The mass of charging cables can be an eyesore. A good solution to this is to create a charging drawer. Simply mount an extension lead inside a drawer and plug it in. Then laptops, mobile phones and tablets can all be charged out of sight by keeping them inside the drawer.

3. Hiding Routers

Internet routers are essential in every home but they aren’t the prettiest of things. Routers can either be stored in drawers like a charger drawer, or just put into pretty boxes. These boxes can have holes cut into them and stacked to make it very easy to connect the devices together. A box could also be decorated to look like a fake book if you wish.

4. Hiding Dog Bowls and Litter Trays

If you have pets then you will need to put litter trays and food bowls in your home. These can be an eyesore, but can be hidden out of sight quite easily. Dog bowls can be installed inside a drawer and pulled out when needed. Once they have finished, the drawer can be shut to conceal the dog bowls.

Cat litter trays could even be built into cabinets to make them look much nicer. Cats can enter through holes in the side of the cabinet.

5. Hiding Cables around your room

Everyone will have extension leads and all sorts of power leads running along skirting boards in their home. There are a few different ways to hide or make a statement of these cables. A small picket fence can be mounted on the skirting board to hide cables and keep them in place. You could also make a feature out of cables on your desk by using miniature overhead pylons.

There’s no need to put up with ugly things in your home, there are plenty of ways that you can hide them from sight. Hopefully by following the guide above you can learn what to do with the eyesores in your house.

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I don’t like the dog bowl in a drawer idea. People may forget to pull the drawer open when they leave or a dog could accidentally shut the drawer, leaving the animal without access to water for long periods of time.

Anonymous

The air conditioner thing is dumb. Either I’m misunderstanding what they did, or they blocked the air flow which will cause it to freeze over.

Anonymous

Not only is the air conditioner hidden! It no longer functions at all! Who’s idea was that? Fire Marshal Bill?

Anonymous

It looks like the cord is gone to the ac so guessing it doesn’t work anymore. My sister has one in her wall from previous owners. They cut a hole in the wall and it goes straight to the outside. It would be hard to find wood to match her walls if she took it out so she now has something hanging over it.

Anonymous

they probably only covered it in the winter

Midwest Mom of 3

Wake up, think outside the box! The ac cover is for the winter season when is not running! And don’t you feed your dog everyday? My dogs bowl is not bottomless, he would go without food if I forgot to fill the bowl, so if I Remer to feed goon it would require opening the drawer. It’s made to close when you have company or parties.

Amy

It is a foolish idea. Who needs a chalkboard todo list in their family room? A better solution would be to build a frame around the unit & install shutters over it. Think “plantation shutters.” Be creative to match your decor. Antique whitewash finish, rustic black, or other color, etc.

NY Geek

Putting router in a box will over heat it and make it lifespan shorten the life span

Anonymous

Yeah I don’t like the cover on the router- it gets hot as it is.

Jody Holton

The hide the wires under a desk idea is too complicated. Just use a tension rod and curtain. Takes all of 15 seconds.

CCS

Dogs are supposed to have constant access to water. The drawer idea is dangerous.

Anonymous

I had an outdated broken AC like that when I first bought my house, no money left to deal with it for awhile so at Christmas when I had tons of company I found a huge box, wrapped it like a fancy present and hung it over the unit! Everyone got a good laugh and lots of pictures so I’ll never live it down. It worked though, finally had the rusty pos taken out and fixed in the spring.

NV

A box picture frame is more attractive. Hang it during winter, remove it during summer.